m6th chord = minor dominant 7th?

Kiyoshi Osawa · From: Mexico City, Mexico

I was doodling around with chord spelling and construction after reading through this site.

Before reading it, I lived in the bliss of ignorance, thinking I could play minor dominant 7th chords. But then, after reading through all that (which i think I found from another post on this forum) I understood that what makes a chord dominant is the tritone interval between 3rd and 7th. Not necesarily just the b7th.

So this guy mentions in passing the 6th chord, which is a big part of western swing, and I realized if I want to make a dominant minor chord, I would have to double flat the seventh, in effect, making it a sixth, to maintain the tritone interval.

All this because I wanted to play a Dominant V7 chord in a minor key...

So am I understanding this correctly? or does a dominant 7th chord with a flat 3rd function just as well in a progression?

anyway, hope this is the right place to ask.

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Kiyoshi
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basilh · From: United Kingdom

The NORMAL format for the dominant chord in a minor key is the same as any other dominant chord... root-third-fifth-flat seventh,... but fills around it should include the b9th and aug 5th..
Baz

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